2w ago

Um... I'm not even using a VPN... Fuck you reddit.

Its for a guide to a part of a game I'm stuck on and reddit is always the top search result. Fuck this shit.

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I just got this too. Using old Reddit (the realest Reddit (which still isn't saying much)) got rid of the banner and allowed loading all the content.
- I do the same thing here. I even use a bookmarklet that converts a current tab in reddit.com to an old.reddit.com link.
  (code if anyone's interested) javascript:(function() { var currentUrl = window.location.href; var newUrl = currentUrl.replace(/^https:\/\/www\.reddit\.com/, 'https://old.reddit.com/'); window.location.href = newUrl; })();
  
  theres a extension that does that.
- Just started getting this too today

it's time to start feeding game guides to gamefaqs again lol

Get the LibRedirect extension. It can send you to alternate mirrors of the same info not just for reddit but a bunch of other corporate data harvesting operations pretending to be websites.

I got permabanned like 6 months ago and I didn't make an effort to combat it, I just took it as a sign, lol.
- just over 12 months here.
  Obligatory fuck /u/spez.
  
  fuck spez
- Same, but once it went public I knew it was over.

Got that today. Changed to old.Reddit.com and no issues. Almost like new Reddit sucks
- Truly the new Coke of websites.

Yep noticed this today. Likely a way to get people to create accounts. And try to combat scraping.
- I have an account and i still get it

I've been getting this too since last night. I'm not using a vpn AND I'm logged into my account. Oh well. Fuck reddit.
- I was gonna make a comment about how at least lemmy is "picking up steam" user wise, but then I remembered all the dipshits and children that are on reddit. Lemmy is slower but content and discussion so far has been of much higher quality.
  
  "Higher Quality"
  Comments be like:
- I was wondering what this was, maybe to do with my use of ad-blocking ?
  
  The speculation I saw was that it's just Firefox in general. Folks were saying turning off ad blocking didn't help.

I also got this today, but my VPN was the reason it wasn't working.
Reddit's bs is pushing me to explore more of the Fediverse these days...

I have also been getting this, via forced DNS over HTTPS (DoH).
You know, a basic security procedure that keeps you safer and more private than 95% of VPNs?
Isn't a problem on literally any other website, other than those so fucking old (or sketch) that they don't even have an HTTPS capability.
When they're saying 'blocked by network security', they mean 'your connection is too secure for us to easily deanonymize you'.
- Can you enlighten me how that would work, as that makes no sense to me from a technical standpoint?
  I fail to see how Reddit would be able to know how you are communicating with a random recursive resolver on the internet. Or are you running your own recursor and trying to use DoH to access their authoritative servers?
  Edit: I hope I don't come across as harsh, it's meant as a genuine question and not to doubt your story. 🙂
  
  I am not running my own recursor, I am not scraping Reddit.
  I have one browser that forces DNS over HTTPS and one that doesn't, and the one that doesn't, also I have yet to encounter this 'security warning' with.
  ???
  Also to technically, how would this work?
  It is early in the morning and I am too tired to posit a precise theory/explanation, but I also now realize I forgot to specify that my DoH setup is Oblivious DNS over HTTPS, ODoH... ie, all DNS requests and responses are routed via proxies.
  So... basically, to Reddit, that may look like I am basically using a VPN, as there is no direct link from my actual IP to Reddit.

My residential IP (an inconspicuous Comcast network) gets blocked by this garbage on so many websites. I don't know why VPNs are less suspicious to sites than my random california ip
- If your able to spoof a different mac address and your ISP should assign you a different IP address
  
  I’m not sure about Comcast but on Spectrum you can simply restart the modem to receive new IPv4, IPv6 addresses.

I started switching to tor-browser when they do this. Not sure why they allow tor but not vpn, but hey if it works it works.
- Login over TOR and you'll be shadow banned.

Librewolf and Zen browser started showing the same message from yesterday.
- Librewolf is cool

I host a copy of redlib and then use the Privacy Redirect extension to make all reddit links send me there.

What game is it? What's the guide? I've been thinking of making some guides for games and posting them to Lemmy myself for a but now. I have absolutely no follow through lol
Edit: ah I see it was Zelda totk and a specific character. If you have time I'd love to see a post with your explination. Not got a switch myself and don't love pirating good games so it's a no play for me

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

I know that this is directly opposing conventional search wisdom here, but you can probably add -site:reddit.com to your query.
- How's that gonna bypass the blocking tho?
  
  It won't, but you were complaining that Reddit was always the top search result, and this will avoid that, putting other sources up there.
  
  Is it more important to you to access a game guide or to bypass blocking? There is probably a game guide that you can access without using Reddit.

What game and what part? Maybe I know the answer.
- Nvm got it. It's Zelda TOTK, couldn't find where Robbie was in the darkness of the underground. I googled for the coordinates and some random website showed up, its solved.
  Thanks for the offer tho
  
  You should repost the solution here too, might help someone else later

Use redlib, people.
https://farside.link/redlib

does archive.today work with reddit or do that block that?
- I suspect that there will be issues occasionally, but I don't think I see any very often. As an example, I got https://archive.is/oc41v as an archive of https://www.reddit.com/r/zelda/comments/1cf6rzl/all_order_to_play_using_a_guide/ just now. Using http://old.reddit.com/ might produce results when using https://www.reddit.com/ didn't.
- Perfection! I forgot about this lol.
  Take that, Steve Huffman, fuck your accounts lol

Would you be against using a redlib instance?

Lately I have been getting blocked as a bot by Cloudflare too. It sucks to be restricted from the internet just because I care about privacy.

Visiting Reddit with tor at their onion address allows access. Sometimes it is rate limited, but you can just cycle circuits until it works

For the Mozilla users: There is a shitton of Tampermonkey (an extension) scripts that automatically redirect you to old.reddit.com.
- But keep in mind that Tampermonkey is closed source, so I'd suggest using Violentmonkey or similar alternatives instead.
  
  Fair enough!

I've all but stopped browsing and using my reddit account due to the public buyout and enshittification, and haven't participated in that cesspool in a long time now, but now that they've decided to ban links to the Internet Archive I want to delete my account and data completely.
- Reddit died just like Digg when they sold out. What a waste.

Do you happen to use an ISP that implements CGNAT? I've seen this error, too, and I've read that it's flagging CGNAT IPs as a VPN?
- I was using my phone, mobile data.
  
  They may be using CGNAT. If you check your local IP and it starts with 10, 172, or 192 when on mobile data that is the case.
- Not here

I don't recall a time when I had a problem with using https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tor/#tor-browser to see a Reddit page

I see this when behind decent NAT like an employers office.

FWIW, I get this all the time when I'm on a VPN. Only some nodes, but I've been seeing this for maybe 2 years, and getting more and more common.
Happens on old.reddit.com and regular reddit as well.
If you don't need to be logged in, there's plenty of redlib front ends that will work around this.

They are blocking google from indexing it because they say it’s being used to train ai.

Im getting this message today and only in Mobile. Now what will i do for 90% of my work day
- Read The Three Body Problem and tell the aliens to come here.
  (If you have android, you could pirate Into The Breach, Stardew Valley, or Slay the Spire. Very fun games! 😉)

I get this while getting log in. I have to click on any link and go back on the page to charge it.

We get it too when using virtual desktops in the cloud at work. It’s hilarious.
I just wish I had a way to block them. Sometimes I’m troubleshooting or researching and a Reddit thread pops up. It’s a waste of space since I can’t even visit the damn site.
- Haha because of your comment i finally searched whether duckduckgo allows you to remove certain sites from all search results. And the first result was reddit. But then I got this exact message too, for the first time. Irony? I guess reddit truly is dead now. I'm just using my home network, no vpn or anything..

https://gitlab.com/cosmosapps/stealth
- Anything equivalent to iOS ?
  
  No idea but probably not
  
  To ask is to answer... I doubt that would ever get listed on apple shit shop

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